Stefan-Peter Greiner
{{short description|German luthier (born 1966)}}
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Stefan-Peter Greiner (born 1966 in Stuttgart) is a German luthier{{cite web
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}} residing in Zurich. He also builds violins.
Career
Greiner built his first violin at the age of fourteen. He completed his training in Bonn.
In 2013 he moved his workshop from Bonn to London, where he worked with several renowned experts and auction houses. Since 2018, Greiner has been managing the violin making company W. E. Hill & Sons, London, together with Robert Brewer Young.
His goal was to build instruments that sounded close to a singing voice,{{cite news |date=19 December 2009 |title=Violin-making: Older and richer |url=http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108669 |newspaper=The Economist |volume=393 |issue=8662 |pages=57–60 |access-date=21 December 2009}} with focus on the range from 2000 to 4000 Hz. During a longstanding partnership with Remagen physicist [https://greinerviolins.com/biography/ Heinrich Dünnwald], who had acoustically analyzed over 1300 violins, Greiner felt that he had succeeded in coming close to the sound of centuries-old Guarneri and Stradivari instruments.{{according to whom|date=September 2015}}
Some of his more notable customers included Leonidas Kavakos, Kim Kashkashian, Bruno Monsaingeon, Frédéric Pelassy, Christian Tetzlaff,{{Cite web |title=5 World Class Soloists Actively Promoting Violin Making {{!}} MyLuthier Blog |url=https://www.myluthier.co/post/5-soloists-playing-on-contemporary-instruments |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=www.myluthier.co |language=en}} the Keller Quartet, and members of the Hagen Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet.{{cite web|url=http://www.greinergeigen.de/htm/kuenst_e.htm |title=Artists & Recordings |publisher=Stefan-Peter Greiner |access-date=23 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207073918/http://www.greinergeigen.de/htm/kuenst_e.htm |archive-date=December 7, 2010 }} He received the 2003 Rheingau Musik Preis, an award initiated in 1994 by the Rheingau Music Festival. Over 100 CDs featuring his instruments have been released.{{cite web
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Greiner currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications
- Stefan-Peter Greiner and Florian Leonhard: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Bocholt 1998; {{ISBN|3-00-002088-8}}
- Brigitte Brandmair and Stefan-Peter Greiner: Stradivari Varnish - Scientific Analysis of his Finishing Technique on Selected Instruments, 2009 {{ISBN|3-00-028537-7}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.greinergeigen.de greinergeigen.de]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090129155009/http://stradivarivarnish.com/ stradivarivarnish.com]
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